THE Zamfara State Police Command has paraded two suspects, Mansur Haruna and Ibrahim Nababa, in connection with the death of a senior journalist in the state, Hamisu Danjibga.
The suspects were paraded this evening at the Police Command Headquarters in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, by the Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Dalijan, who said Hamisu, the Voice of Nigeria (VON) reporter, was suspected of being assassinated by his nephew, Mansur, and his friend, Ibrahim.
He stated that the suspects were apprehended following the polices investigation into the journalist’s death.
According to him, the main suspect, Mansur, confessed to the police about their struggle with Hamisu while attempting to kidnap him.
“The prime suspect is the son of Danjibga’s elder brother. He lived with the late Danjibga here in Gusau. He had wanted to join the Nigerian Army but Alhaji Danjibga said: ‘No, with the type of criminal tendencies I’m seeing in you, I’ll never be a guarantor for you to join the Nigerian Army’.
“Alhaji Danjibga sent him out of his house and he went to stay with his friend Ibrahim Nababa. It was at the friend’s house they planned how to kidnap Danjibga. When they finished the plan, they went to his house and when they met him, they wanted to take him away from the house but he resisted.
“He said: ‘You, my son, it is you that wants to do this kind of a thing to me. I am not going anywhere’. It was at that particular point the boy brought out a knife and stabbed him three times in the chest. His friend carried a cutlass and cut him two times on his head. He fell there instantly and died. They carried his body and put it inside a soakaway in an Islamiyya school,” the commissioner said.
The police also apprehended a suspected bandit who specializes in transporting military material from Aba in Abia State to a bandits’ enclave in Zamfara State’s Kaura-Namoda Local Government Area.
